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Foreign state hackers are trying to brute-force their way into pharmaceutical and medical research agencies hunting for a COVID-19 vaccine, British and American infosec agencies are warning.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and America’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) cautioned of a “password spraying” campaign targeting healthcare and medical research organisations.
Hostile countries are also said to be abusing a specific Citrix vulnerability (CVE-2019-19781) that, if unpatched, permits remote code execution by an unauthenticated user. In addition, they are also abusing vulns in VPNS from Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and Pulse Secure to snare people working from home.
Paul Chichester, NCSC director of operations, said in a s ..
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